La Luna
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Genre: World cinema, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: Italy
Language: English Language, Italian Language
Starring: Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Jill Clayburgh, Franco Citti, Peter Eyre, Matthew Barry, Fred Gwynne, Tomas Milian, Veronica Lazar, Roberto Benigni, Carlo Verdone
La Luna, also known as Luna, is a 1979 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jill Clayburgh. The film concerns the troubled life of a teenage boy and his relationship with his parents, including an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh). While Joe believes that Caterina's husband, Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne), is his biological father, the truth is that he was sired by Caterina's former lover, who is now living in Italy and working as a schoolteacher. Joe is moody and rebellious and needs a strong father figure to guide him and keep him in line, but Douglas is ineffectual and emotionally weak, and when Joe witnesses the sudden death of Douglas, it sends him over the edge. In hopes of boosting her singing career, which has fallen into a rut, Caterina decides to move to Italy with her son. There, Joe falls in with a dangerous crowd and becomes addicted to heroin.
Caterina is heartbroken and hopes to lure her son back to a safer and healthier lifestyle. She tries in many instances to get closer emotionally to her son hoping that increased contact will prevail over the pull of
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